COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



MICKLEHAM 



Sir Francis Geary of High Polesden, who died in 

 1796, being succeeded by his son Sir William, who 

 sold to Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1809. In 1816, 

 after Sheridan's death, it was sold to Mr. Thomas 

 Hudson, along with Chapel Farm, which was in Poles- 

 den Lacy Manor. The manorial rights and part of 

 the property were sold by Mrs. Hudson's trustees in 

 1 874 to Mr. J. Leverton Wylie, by whom courts were 

 held occasionally. He died recently, and his relative, 

 Mr. F. Leverton Harris, is now lord of the manor. 



In the reign of John the priory of Merton held 

 land in Polesden, 94 later described as the manor of 

 POLESDEN LACY?" At the dissolution of the 

 monastery in 1538 the manor was granted by 

 Henry VIII to William Sackvyle, who purchased the 

 manor of Polesden Lacy and farms called Capelland 

 and Bowetts." William Sackvyle died in 1556." His 

 son in the same year had licence to alienate the manor 

 and messuages and land called Capelland and Bowetts 

 to Gilbert and Richard Sackvyle, 98 by whom it was 

 sold to Henry Stydolf in 1564." He died without 

 male issue, 100 having settled the manor on a certain 

 John Stydolf, with re- 

 mainder to his brothers 

 William and Thomas 

 successively. 101 Wil- 

 liam died in seisin 

 of it at the end of 

 Elizabeth's reign; I<B 

 Thomas himself, at 

 his death in 1603, 

 only possessed land 

 in Polesden, which 

 descended to his son 

 Sir Francis Stydolf. 103 



William Stydolf, son 

 of William, had Poles- 

 den Lacy in 1657."" 

 His son Sigismund 

 Stydolf in 1689 settled 

 the manor on himself 

 and his wife Mar- 

 garet, daughter of Sir 

 Francis Rolle, and at 

 his death left it to his 

 wife. 105 She married 



three times, her third husband being Thomas Edwin, 

 upon whom she settled the manor after her death, 

 in default of issue from the marriage. She died in 

 1734, and as she left no children Mr. Edwin be- 

 came seised of the manor, which descended to his 

 nephew Charles Edwin. 106 Charles Edwin bequeathed 

 his estates to his wife Lady Charlotte, with remainder 

 to his issue, in default to his sister Catherine Edwin 

 and her male issue, and in default to his nephew 

 Charles Windham. Lady Charlotte died in 1777, 

 and Catherine Edwin being dead without issue, 



Charles Windham succeeded to the estates and took 

 the name of Edwin. In 1 784 he sold the manor 

 to Admiral Sir Francis Geary, who held the manor 

 of High Polesden in Great Bookham, after which 

 the descent of the two manors is identical (q.v.). 



The church of ST. MICHAEL con- 

 CHURCH sists of a chancel 28 ft. gin. by i6ft. 

 9 in., with vestries on the north side 

 and a circular organ-chamber on the south ; a nave 

 42 ft. by 1 7 ft. loin., with a north aisle 30 ft. 

 6 in. by 1 5 ft. 6 in., at the east end of which is a 

 chantry i6ft. by loft. ; a south aisle 7 ft. 6 in. 

 wide, and a west tower 1 6 ft. 7 in. by 1 4 ft. 2 in., 

 having over its west doorway a porch loft. gin. by 

 8 ft. 7 in. 



The oldest part of the building is the west tower, 

 dating from c. 1 140, while the chancel is some forty 

 years later. All the rest of the church except the 

 west porch, a 15th-century addition, and the north 

 chapel, which is of early 1 6th-century date, has been 

 rebuilt in modern times 1872 and 1891 the north 

 aisle having been widened at the latter date. A 



Circa. U40 . 

 J150. 

 15*Century, 



-of Feet. 

 PLAN OF MICKLEHAM CHURCH 



H /Aodcm. 



former north doorway was taken away in 1891, and 

 has been set up in the grounds of Fredley, in the 

 parish. 



Parts of a large circular column with a scalloped 

 capital, now in the tower, were found in excavating 

 for the new arcade, and show that an aisle existed in 

 the 1 2th century, evidently on the south side, as the 

 north aisle was a very late addition, none existing 

 when Manning and Bray wrote. 



The chancel has a marked deviation to the south 

 from the line of the nave and tower, and doubtless 



94 Feet of F. Surr. 3 John ; Abbrev. 

 Plac. (Rec. Com.), 93. 



<* Vdor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 48 ; 

 Mint. Accti. Surr. 29 & 30 Hen. VIII, 

 no. 115, m. 7. It it probably what is 

 meant at an earlier date by East Polesden ; 

 vide Feet of F. Surr. 13 Edw. II, no. 10 

 (Surr. Arch Coll. Vol. of Fines, 89). 



98 Aug. Off. Parties, of Grants, 38 

 Hen. VIII, no. 971 ; Pat. 4 Edw. VI, 

 pt. viii, m. 38. 



lj; Chan. Inq. p.m. Z & 3 Phil, and 



Mary, ex, 148. He held the manor and 

 woodlands called the Hooke Grove, the 

 Lower Prunes, the Upper Prunes, Capell 

 Grove, and Malbrydynge Coppice in 

 Mickleham and Polesden, and messuages 

 and tenements called Capellande and 

 Bowetts. 



88 Pat. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, 

 m. 17 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 6 Eliz. 

 m. 28 d. 



99 Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. ix, m. 9 : Com. Plea 

 D. Enr. East. 6 Eliz. m. 28 d. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), clxxv, 66. 

 > Mem.R. (L.T.R.) loEliz. rot. 157. 

 loa Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxiv, 175. 

 "> Ibid, cclxxx, 69. 



104 Recov. R. Trin. 1657, rot. 59. 



105 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 657 j 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 29 Chas. II. 



108 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 658. 

 The history of the tenure from the Sty- 

 dolfs to the Edwins is identical with that 

 of Headley (q.v.). 



